Graphics Library for D

Adam Wilson flyboynw at gmail.com
Wed Jan 8 18:19:41 PST 2014


On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:55:20 -0800, Mike Parker <aldacron at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/9/2014 3:42 AM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>
>> the standard library. In principle, I don't really have a problem with
>> that, however as someone pointed out, you don't really expect to be able
>> to use std.socket without a NIC, so saying that it shouldn't be in just
>> because not all machines have graphics output is tad extreme.
>
> What I'm saying is that if it *is* in Phobos, then there should be a  
> software renderer so that it *is* available to use on machines with no  
> graphics card. If it isn't in Phobos, then I wouldn't see a software  
> renderer as a requirement.
>

That's fair, and I don't think anyone here would disagree. Software  
renderers are hard things to write though, so I don't expect we'll get one  
early on. But I'd like to include one at some point...

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Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator


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